Tower Water

10/09/2026

📌📝 Is the condition of your glycol telling you something? Our inspection checklist walks through what the color, the smell, the concentration, and the pH are each pointing to, and what the right next step is for every one of those readings. Know what is normal versus what requires immediate professional attention.

10/06/2026

📊💨 Boiler water treatment starts with understanding the water composition, application, and operating temperatures. Protecting against scale, corrosion, and dissolved oxygen requires specific treatment approaches. Feed water treatment, filtration, and a protective layer inside the tubes is what ensures a boiler lasts its useful life.

The water that circulates through your building should be treated and have boiler treatment to prevent deterioration of your equipment.

10/02/2026

🍂❄️ As temperatures drop in the Northeast, shutting your cooling system down properly becomes the priority. Draining protects against freeze damage, layup chemicals protect the metal from corrosion, and sealing keeps pests, debris, and moisture out of an idle system all winter.

A guide to shutting off your cooling system for the winter, focusing on critical components like cooling towers, chillers, and fluid coolers.

09/29/2026

🌀📷 One of our techs snapped this while inspecting a newly installed plate and frame heat exchanger at a client's building. The view is from the inlet, where you can see all the clean surfaces and plates stacked up inside. Not every day a piece of equipment doubles as abstract art.

09/25/2026

🗂️✅ With cooling season winding down, now is a great time to prepare for NYC's November 1st cooling tower certification. Under LL159, this year's requirements look slightly different. You will need your maintenance program and plan updated, inspection and monthly sampling reports organized, and documentation of any corrective actions.

This guide will help you ensure your cooling towers are compliant and maintain the safety and efficiency of your buildings.

09/22/2026

💧📊 Cooling towers lose water a few ways as they run. Evaporation is how heat leaves the system, blowdown reduces mineral buildup from evaporation, and drift is droplets pulled out by the air. Knowing how to calculate and monitor water loss is the first step in setting cycles of concentration and using water and chemicals efficiently.

Learn the cooling tower water loss calculation for evaporation, drift, and blowdown, plus practical ways to reduce makeup water use.

09/18/2026

☀️💦 Our annual Tower Water picnic is a long running tradition. This year we spent the day at Frogbridge Day Camp, where everyone brought their family out for some summer fun. Swimming, mini golf, a little friendly competition, and food all afternoon. Building relationships outside of work matters to us as much as the ones on the job.

09/15/2026

📰🦠A new Legionnaires cluster has been identified in the South Bronx. Clusters like these may become the norm, with monthly testing increasing the likelihood of finding Legionella and record hot summers giving bacteria ideal conditions. It is a stark reality that people lose their lives to this illness. Legionella cannot be fully prevented, so early detection and disinfection is the best way to protect public health.

The disease is a form of pneumonia caused by Legionella bacteria, which can grow in warm water and spread through mist produced by cooling towers

09/11/2026

🧑🚒👮 25 years ago on September 11th, this city and its people changed forever. Today we pause to honor those lost, including first responders, and the families still carrying that weight a quarter century later. We're honored to serve and support the people of this incredible city, standing alongside those who call New York home.

09/08/2026

📋🌡️ Fall is on the horizon, which means it is time to prepare for heating season. Our seasonal checklist covers the pre heating stretch in full, from equipment inspections and safety controls through the water treatment your system runs on. Buildings that get ahead of it go into winter with fewer surprises.